An officer of a local housing authority who has entered premises under section 118(1) or under a warrant under section 120 may, for the purposes mentioned in subsection (2), at any reasonable time—
The purposes are—
The power in subsection (1) is available regardless of whether—
That power includes power to require the person to give an explanation of the documents.
Where a document required to be produced under subsection (1) contains information recorded electronically, the power in that subsection includes power to require the production of a copy of the document in a form in which it can easily be taken away and in which it is visible and legible.
This section does not permit an officer to require a person to create a document other than as described in subsection (5).
This section does not permit an officer to require a person to produce any document which the person would be entitled to refuse to produce in proceedings in the High Court on the grounds of legal professional privilege.
In this section "relevant business" means the business for the purposes of which the premises are occupied.